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amazing ideas. surface level 2 dimensional characters....

posted 5 years ago by JlawsANormlHuman (847)
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I am only on episode 5 and love the concept. historical reimagination is super interesting..

BUT

I keep expecting some more development from characters. a flashback, anything. that explains who they are and their role. the best test to see if characters are well developed is to describe what they are like without just using their looks or occupation/hobby.

well Julian she's.... a women.. who does taekwondo.. and Blake is.... a nazi spy... who..... kinda likes the women maybe??

like honestly. everytime I think about how much I love the world they created I get reminded how surface level each character is.

[–] Martindo (58) 5 years ago

One problem (IMO) with modern TV series is that they can't really sustain a single plot line for a whole episode, due to audience inattention and/or the "need" to have tons of characters. So, you get slow development in pieces over the course of a whole season.

I think that Tagomi and Smith are complex characters who become 3 dimensional as season 1 moves on, so that you really get a sense of their complexity by season 3. Even Kido starts to show more than one side by the end of season 3. And of course Juliana always in search of herself while on the run, begging assistance from various men, is multidimensional even though not the ideal heroine IMO.